From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755141AbZEQV4h (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 17:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754203AbZEQV40 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 17:56:26 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:44158 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753717AbZEQV4Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 17:56:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:57:24 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Jonathan Woithe Cc: David Dillow , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Edward Hsu Subject: Re: Realtek 8168D: no active link (2.6.29.2) Message-ID: <20090517215724.GA7699@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1242323133.32579.4.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> <200905142322.n4ENMJP3028786@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905142322.n4ENMJP3028786@turbo.physics.adelaide.edu.au> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Jonathan Woithe : [...] > Indeed. To follow up on this, as per my earlier email I left the machine > disconnected from the mains all night - so it was truly "off" for about 9 > hours. Just before coming to work I flicked it on and the "link" LED lit > almost immediately. So whatever the Realtek driver did, the resulting > status would appear to be stored in some kind of non-volatile memory. While > it would appear that this has worked around the problem for me, it would be > nice if the mainline driver could do this itself. The attached patch is not complete but can you give it a try and check if it makes a difference ? 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